Moulin Rouge
by John Huston
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Actor: Claude Nollier, Jos? Ferrer, Katherine Kath, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa GaborDirector: John Huston
Brand: TCFHE/MGM
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
Producer: John Huston
Writer: John Huston
Producer: Jack Clayton
Producer: John Woolf
Writer: Anthony Veiller
Writer: Pierre La Mure
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great biography of a truly gifted artist. It brings Paris to life in both its grand side and its seamy side. It is a pg movie with a lot of information about laTrec and also the times and the reasons for his art and his death. If you like Jose Ferrer, it is one of the two greatest movies in which he ever starred. His other great movie is "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Summary of Moulin Rouge
Nominated* for seven Academy Awards(r) (including Best Picture) and winner of two, this visually stunning biography of master artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is a "painting come to life" (Time)! "Flawlessly directed" (The Hollywood Reporter) by John Huston (The African Queen), from a script by Anthony Veiller and Huston, Moulin Rouge is simply "irresistible" (Newsweek)! As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street who then breaks his heart. Luckily, newfound artistic success, copious amounts of drink and friendship with a new woman keep him alive. Will he be able to mend his broken heart in time to recognize the true love now staring him inthe face?It was one of the top 10 grossing films of 1952 and garnered seven Oscar nominations, but Moulin Rouge is neglected today. Not to be confused with the Baz Luhrmann-Nicole Kidman extravaganza, this is a color-soaked tale of Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer), based on a romanticized novel about the artist's life. Director John Huston explores the discrepancy between the creation of exquisite art and the messy business of living--especially messy for the growth-stunted, alcoholic painter, whose affairs revolve around prostitutes. The soap-opera aspects of the storyline limit the picture (as does the distracting fact of Ferrer walking on his knees), but it has some gorgeous things in it. The experiments in color photography (which horrified the Technicolor people) are spectacularly successful, and the movie won Oscars for set decoration and costumes. George Auric's haunting melody became a standard, so lovely even the dubbed performance of Zsa Zsa Gabor couldn't hurt it. --Robert Horton
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